The Center for Civic Education (CGO) has submitted a request to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) to initiate proceedings against the former Minister of European Affairs, Aleksandar Andrija Pejović, for not reporting accurate data in the Report on Income and Assets for 2017. Referring to the report that Pejović submitted to the Agency on March 30, CGO claims that the former minister did not explain how he saved 53 thousand euros for the year.
CGO explained that in the property report for 2017, Pejović reported 46.763 income, with the situation unchanged when it comes to immovable property. However, as stated in the CGO, Pejović reported savings of 53 thousand euros, which did not exist in the reports for 2016 and 2015.
"It is unclear how Pejović managed to save 53.000 euros during 2017. Namely, according to the data he submitted during 2017, he earned 46.763 euros, and even if it is taken as an impossible starting point that he did not save a cent of that income he did not spend on existential and related needs, there is still an unexplained 6.236 euros more than he earned for that year, which does not even exist as a recorded income in his report," states the request that the executive director of CGO Daliborka Uljarević submitted to the Agency, on headed by Sreten Radonjić.
It is also stated that in the property record for 2016, when he covered the functions of minister and chief negotiator, Pejović reported 43.466 euros in income, as well as that he had no money saved. In 2015, when he was the main negotiator with the EU, he earned 45.491 euros and also did not save anything.
"From this, it can be concluded that during 2016 and 2015 Pejović spent an average of 44.000 euros per year for his existential and related needs, and that during 2017 he saved more than he earned, while it is not even clear what he lived on because it turns out that he did not spend a single euro on existential and related needs. Bearing in mind all of the above, about which we are attaching complete documentation, we ask you to take measures in accordance with your powers to determine violations of the law," the request states.
Pejović resigned from the post of minister at the end of February after the Agency determined that he was in a conflict of interest because he combined the functions of minister, chief negotiator and ambassador to the EU. The agency established that Pejović, combining functions, received a monthly compensation of 2017 euros from the state budget from May 3.168.
There is no Mazda in the property register
In the CGO request, it is also stated that there is no car in Pejović's property record for last year, but it is not stated whether it was sold and at what price.
"To be precise, Pejović no longer owns part of the movable property, the Mazda MX5 car from 1999, but there is no report that he sold it and on that basis earned additional income. Checks on the car market indicate that such a car can realistically have a price of five to six thousand euros, and there is no information on the sale in the record, nor in general about the reasons why the car is no longer in the property record", says Uljarević.
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